Tuscaloosa High School - Black Warrior Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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W...-W' SOPHS RICHARD CORTER and Linda Tubb JOHN PICKENS and Bob Shamblin study English grammar in preparation for examine English department's tape recorder. college entrance tests which Seniors must take to gain admission into college MRS. ADELLE DOWDY, University of Alabama, B.S., MA., English, Advanced Mathematics-MRS. LOUISE HARDEN, University of Alabama, B.A., English, Sponsor of Senior Class-MISS FAYE LITTLE, Atlantic Christian College Uni- versity of Alabama, B.S., lvl.A., English-MRS. SARA OGLESBY, Alabama College, A.B., English-MRS. EVELYN VIBBART, University of Alabama, AB., English, Reading, Sponsor of Junior Class.

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English Upens Wide cause n essary for a to take English knowledge of one's language is education, all students are required year at Tuscaloosa High School. his course consists of a study of grammar, composition, and all types of literature. English is probably the strong- est language spoken, and more people speak it than any other single language in the world, except Chinese. World of Literature MRS. ELISE ALEXANDER, Vanderbilt University, B.A., M.A., English, Reading, Sponsor of Forensic League-MRS. BETTY BOOTH, University of Alabama, B.A., English, Read- ing, Sponsor of Anchor Club-MISS JOY BOX, Birming- ham Southern, B.A., University of Alabama, M.A., English -MISS ANNA BROWN, University ot Alabama, A.B., M.A., English, Sponsor of Senior Class-MRS. WYNELL BURROUGHS, University of Alabama, B.S., English, Journ- alism, Sponsor of Bear Facts-MRS. SANDRA BUSBY, Birmingham Southern, B.A., English, French, Sponsor of Student Council, Sponsor of French Club. English is also a powerful literary language. Sopho- mores study Julius Caesar and Silas Marner, among other works. Juniors take American literature, and in the Senior year, the study of literature includes Macbeth and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. T.H.S. students learn English history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. IS THAT A dangling participle, a split infinitive, or a gerund? The students in Miss Box's Senior English class contemplate the intricacies of English grammar as they study verbal nouns and adiectives. l20l

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MRS. OLIVIA FINES, Florida State University, B.A., Uni- versity of Alabama, MA., Latin, Sponsor of Junior Classical League. Latin - A Liberal HAS CIRCE BEEN using her magic wand on Latin students? No, . ' they're iust modeling costumes used in a J.C.L. meeting. i TUM OR TAM . . . that is the question that con- fronts Latin I students in a typical vocabulary drill. Latin students at T.H.S. obtain more than a knowledge of grammar and the Gallic Wars. They dabble in phil- osophy la la Finesi, archaeology, and the fine arts. Mythology and Winnie llle Pu also add to students' repertoires. Some students scorn Latin as a dead langu- age, but many colleges prefer it to modern languages. LATIN STUDENTS follow along in the book while they listen to Moses Hadas reading excerpts from famous Latin authors' works. l22l